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• Arizona is home to America’s two largest city parks. Scottsdale contains the largest, spanning over 30,500 acres, or more than 47 miles square. Next is the South Mountain Preserve in Phoenix, covering 16,283 acres. • New York City’s Central Park might seem big, but it covers just 843 acres, about 2.5 miles in length and a half mile wide between 59th Street and 110th Street. South America’s Amazon River contains islands that are larger than Central Park. • Compare Central Park with Vatican City, the tiny monarchy ruled by the Pope. The area of this unique city covers only 0.17 sq. miles, just one-eighth the size of Central Park. The U.S. is about 22,348,900 times larger than the Vatican. As the world’s smallest independent state, Vatican City mints its own currency, prints its own stamps, issues passports and license plates, and has its own flag and anthem. MEGAMALLS

Muc “Yo U.S. CITIES contin • You can probably guess that New York, Losright • Minneapolis’ Mall of America was built on Angeles, and Chicago are America’s top three one the site of Metropolitan Stadium, home of the most populous cities, but the list of the largest pen square feet. China is home to three out of the top five, and the Philippines has three out of the top ten.

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Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Twins until 1982. The Twins’ former home plate is now the under the merry-go-round in mall’s indoor amusement park. With 520 stores and 5.6 million square feet of space on four levels, seven Yankee stadiums would fit inside this enormous structure. Yet big as it is, it’s far down the line in global ranks, sitting at No. 43 in size. In fact, it’s not even the largest in the United States.

cities by land area is much different. You mightShe be surprised that Sitka, Alaska tops that list,and and that's due to the large number of milesWhi it covers. With a population of only about 10,000, its boundaries span a vast 4,811 square miles of area, which does include large areas of water making it sound much larger. Three other Alaskan cities, Juneau, Wrangell, and Anchorage, round out the top four.

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of the person you spoke with and the date you made this request. ® SEND THE LETTER Immediately follow up with a letter reby Mary Hunt ferring to your conversation and restating your instruction. Enclose the credit card, which you’ve By Lucie Winborne cut into pieces, if you still have it. Send this letter by certified mail with delivery confirmation. This will cost you a couple of bucks in addition * A tarantula discovered in 2015 to the regular postage. Once you get that signed near Folsom Prison, California, was receipt back, attach it to your copy of the letter. given the scientific name “Aphonopel Closing a credit card account is not for ma johnnycashi” after Johnny Cash, the faint of heart. So, why bother? Oh, let me FOLLOW UP in honor of his song “Folsom Prison ® count the ways: In about two weeks, call customer serBlues.” vice again to confirm your account is closed. by Mary Hunt No. 1: Excessive lines of credit -- even * For that matter, “The Crocodile Assume it won’t be (they’re fighting you here, so those with a $0 balance -- can wreak havoc on Hunter” Steve Irwin had a snail named expect them to deny ever hearing from you at your credit rating. after him, the “Crikey steveirwini,” a all). Repeat your verbal instructions: Close this rare species of tree snail with a khakiaccount! colored shell discovered in 2009. No. 2: Many open lines of credit are dif ficult to manage. VERIFY * Some 60% of human DNA is iden In about three months, order a copy of tical to that of a banana. No. 3: And let’s not forget that temptation your credit report (from AnnualCreditReport. factor. com). If the account shows “closed at request of * The maddening but addictive Ru customer” or something similar, you’ve achieved bik’s Cube was created by accident. Truth be told, all you really need is one -success. Professor of architecture Erno Rubik two at the most -- good, all-purpose credit cards. built a twistable box with colorful rows Now, before we get into how to close of labels on each side in an attempt to REPEAT AS NECESSARY accounts, let’s look at the facts. Banks, credit design blocks that could move without Until the account is reported as closed, card companies and retail credit granters are collapsing the entire structure. After go back to step one and go through all the steps very keen on retaining their revolving “open-end” rotating a few rows and mixing up the again. You could get full cooperation on your first colors, the real challenge began: recredit accounts (from the Latin root meaning call, or it could take several rounds to permaaligning the hues! 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There’s a whole lot of fighting going on out there. I’ve had eight calls about dog aggression in the past week. Fighting outside the home, fighting inside the home, battling over toys, territory, food and other high-value resources, namely humans. One caller told the familiar tale of her two female dogs who have taken to fighting. She brought this terrible twosome into her home when they were 9 months old, and they spent their puppyhood peacefully playing together like loving sisters. As they grew older, the playing turned to fighting. Now Mom spends her days breaking up dogfights and trying to avoid getting bit in the process. Let’s talk about that for a minute: breaking up dogfights. How do you do it without losing a hand? Answer: Don’t use your hands. Ever. Most dogfights can be broken up with distractions. Throwing a blanket over the dogs is my preferred method. You could also bang pots and pans together or otherwise create a loud ruckus -but not with your voice. Yelling just serves to amp up an already intense situation. The noise should be something unfamiliar to the dogs. If a fight breaks out outside, spray the dueling hounds with a hose -- and use a strong spray. You aren’t cooling them down; you’re breaking it up. But the best way to break up a dogfight is to prevent it. Learn to recognize the early signs, and put the brakes on then. Get to know the triggers, and manage them. If your dogs fight over food, don’t feed them together, and don’t leave bowls of food on the floor when it’s not feeding time. Ditto with bones, treats and toys if those are a source of contention. If the triggers aren’t obvious and your dogs fight violently and for what appears to be no reason, you’re going to need the help of a dog behaviorist who specializes in aggression. And if the situation is serious, you might need to rehome one of the dogs. It isn’t fair or decent to make them live

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real mom or dad just might be bad parents. And in all those kinds of situations, no Social Security benefits can be paid to the kids from a grandparent’s account, because Mom and Dad are not disabled or dead. There is one big exception to this rule, however. And that is if the grandparents have formally adopted their grandkids. Adoption changes everything. If you have adopted one or more of your children’s children, then those kids are no longer legally your grandkids. They are YOUR kids. And as such, they would be eligible for Social Security benefits on your record, just like any child is eligible for benefits on a retiree’s account. So, if you are caring for a grandchild who you have adopted, that child will qualify for an amount equal to 50% of your full retirement age benefit. And if you die, that child will get an amount equal to 75% of your full benefit. And in either case, the child would continue to receive monthly checks on your account until he or she reaches age 18. Now here are some different kinds of ques tions from seniors about their grandkids. They aren’t looking for benefits on their retirement accounts. They are just seeking information for grandkids who have some problems -- usually medical problems.

portunity to play Grandma or Grandpa. My wife and I have five grandchildren, and each of them brings a smile to our faces and a nice warm glow to our hearts -- at least a good percentage of the time! One of the big advantages to grandparenting is that you get to play with them and bounce them on your knees and otherwise spoil them for a few hours at a time, and then they go home! But for more and more retirees and soonto-be retirees, those grandkids don’t go home. In fact, they are “home” already because they live Q: We have a 16-year-old granddaugh with Grandma and Grandpa. For a variety of reater who was in a bad car accident and now sons, the kids’ parents are unable to care for them, has a ver y severe disability -- a brain injur y. so the responsibility for raising the little tykes falls Her mother (our daughter) quit work to take to the grandparents. care of her. Her father has a good job -- but And if Grandma and Grandpa are getting he worries he might be laid off soon. They are Social Security checks, they want to know if the struggling to make ends meet. Can they get grandkids would be eligible for dependents benany kind of Social Security help for our grandefits on their record. Unfortunately, the answer is daughter? frequently no. That’s primarily because the law says the A: The only kind of help your granddaugh child’s natural parents (both of them) have to be ADVERTISING PROOF the Security ter can get from Social Tues., 6/9/20would be from disabled or deceased before the children would be Changes DUE: Final p.m.. But parents. Social Security account of one of her5:00 review carefully. Double check:  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices  Hours eligible for Social Security benefits fromPlease the grandthat can’t happen unless one of the parents is getparents. Contact your Tidbits Social immediately with changes corrections. is deparents of the or or if one Security ting representative In most cases (at least the ones Office: readers 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 ceased. So, that means there would be no Social have sent me emails about), Grandma and GrandSecurity benefits for now. pa are caring for the kids only because the parents another program called is Landing However, there Hawk’s can’t or won’t. One or both parents might be drug managed by It is Income. Security Supplemental • 1/8th page • June 14, 2020 abusers. One or both parents might be in jail. The

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the Social Security Administration, but it is not a Social Security benefit and is not paid for out of Social Security taxes. SSI is a welfare program that pays a small monthly check to poor people who are over 65 or to poor people of any age who are disabled -- including kids. Because it is a welfare program, the income and assets of the parents are taken into account when deciding if your grandchild qualifies for benefits. The rules are too complicated to explain in this column. If she does qualify for SSI, she would get a small monthly check (around $800) -- but she also would get valuable Medicaid coverage. The only way to find out if she is eligible for SSI would be to have the parents call the SSA at 1-800-772-1213 and go over their situation. Q: We have a grandson who is 25 years old. He has been disabled since birth. His parents, our son and daughter-in-law, have been taking care of him. And until recently, they have been doing well financially. They own their own restaurant. But the COVID-19 virus has hit their business quite hard, so now they are struggling. They are too proud to seek any kind of help for their son. But we want to know what, if anything, might be available to him through Social Security. A: As explained in the answer to the first question, there would be no benefits from Social Security because the parents aren’t getting Social Security themselves. But there is a pretty good chance your grandson will get SSI. In the prior answer, I explained that when deciding if a child is eligible for SSI, the income and assets of the parents must be taken into account. But once the child is over age 18, as is your grandson, the story changes. At 18, your grandson is considered an independent adult. And assuming he doesn’t have any income or resources of his own, then he should be able to get a monthly SSI check. Because the parents are supporting your grandchild, it might not be the full $800 allotment I mentioned in the prior answer. But it will be something -- maybe in the range of $500 per month. And no matter how much he gets in monthly SSI payments, your grandson will get Medicaid coverage, which is often more valuable than the SSI payment. So, your son or daughter-inlaw should call the SSA at 1-800-772-1213 and get the ball rolling. * * * If you have a Social Security question, Tom Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.margenau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Margenau and to read past columns and see features from other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM

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With all the fanfare about the suicide prevention programs created to help veterans who are suffering, it would seem that all a veteran would need to do is present himself at the closest Depart DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 72-yearment of Veterans Affairs medical facility and help old woman in fair health. I had strong bones would immediately be there. until I had gastric bypass surgery. Within two years, I developed osteoporosis. In 2016 my Not necessarily so. parathyroid hormone level was found to be A veteran presented himself at a VA emerelevated. However, it has come down over the gency room suffering from suicidal thoughts. He past year or two from 97.76 to 68.95 pg/mL. was in pain, suffered from withdrawal seizures and The endocrinologist now has me on 8,000 IU was on medication that had been tapered down unof vitamin D-3 per day. My calcium was 9.3 til he had no more pills. Six days later he was dead. and ionized calcium was 5.0. At the ER the veteran asked to be admitted Meanwhile, the rheumatologist treatfor inpatient detox. Instead they scheduled him for ing my osteoporosis has prescribed Reclast a same-day psych evaluation. A Veteran Experience infusions once per year. I just received my Specialist took the veteran back to the ER and told second one this month. them, again, that he’d asked for inpatient care. The This summer I broke a toe on my veteran was handed off to an outpatient psychiaright foot with no known trauma. In October trist who recommended either inpatient detox or I sustained a stress fracture of my left heel inpatient psychiatry care, inpatient in either case. bone, again without any known trauma. I am The psychiatrist also escorted the veteran back to very worried about what all this means to my the ER. future bone health. -- L.M.J. After multiple hand-offs, the veteran was ANSWER: I suspect you had vitamin D told to go home. He refused to leave. Another phydeficiency due to the gastric bypass surgery, sician accused him of malingering and called the ANSWER: High-dose ibuprofen was which prevents your body from absorbing it efpolice, who hauled the veteran out of the building. shown to inhibit muscle protein synthesis followficiently. Without vitamin D, your bones cannot The veteran asked to go back to the ER for specific ing weightlifting exercise. This led to a suspicion take up calcium as effectively. The parathyroid knee pain. that it might impair the gains in muscle strength hormone often will increase in this situation, and Back in the ER, multiple individuals heard that are made with exercise. However, a Canadithis is called “secondary hyperparathyroidism.” ADVERTISING ADVERTISING PROOF PROOF the second ER physician say that the veteran could an study showed that moderate doses of4ibupro It’s important to note that both your total MON., MAY go shoot himself, and “I do not care.” (The VA did Final Changes DUE: p.m.. Final Changes DUE: 5:005:00 p.m.. fen (400 mg after exercise) did not impair muscle and ionized calcium levels are normal. Ionized not get ridofHours this physician for nine more months, Please review carefully.  Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Prices growth orDouble gains instrength. Using ibuprofen for  Prices calcium is the active form -- some calcium binds Please review carefully. Double check:check: Phone Number(s)  Spelling  Hours despite a long history of verbal abuse.) occasional muscle soreness or for the purpose to albumin, a major protein in blood. In secondContact your Tidbits representative immediately with changes or corrections. In all, within 12 hours, the veteran saw a representative with changes of reducing prostateimmediately inflammation should not or corrections. ary hyperparathyroidism, the calcium Contact is neveryour Tidbits Office: 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 total of seven medical providers. Five days later the Office: 760-320-0997 valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760-320-1630 adversely email: affect your performance in running. outpatient psychiatrist finally made an appointment * * * for a substance-use program, but no one told the Dr. Roach regrets that he is unable to answer veteran. He missed the appointment, of course, but individual letters, but will incorporate them in the column no one followed up. Bob’s Clock Shop whenever possible. Readers may email questions to The next day, six days after his ER visit, the BZToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu. 4C 26x TF May 10, 2020 Vol. 16 - No. 20 veteran was dead from suicide. MON., JULY 6

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